IOLAN SCG LWM Secure Console Server recognized in 2022 Network Computing Awards

PRINCETON, N.J. (Aug 4, 2022):The public and industry judges for the 2022 Network Computing Awards have voted that the Perle IOLAN SCG LWM Secure Console Server is the ‘Network Management Product of the Year’ winner. This award recognizes an innovative product and company that has strategically added value to the performance of an organization’s network.

We are thrilled to win this prestigious award and thank everyone who has voted for us. Being recognized alongside some of the most esteemed companies in the world is a testament to the quality of our products.

The Perle IOLAN SCG LWM Console Server is a hardware solution that provides LTE, Wi-Fi, or modem Out-of-Band (OOB) access to securely reboot IT-equipment that has crashed or been powered down during network outages. This is the only way to gain access to critical equipment when the network is down, a device is turned off, in sleep mode, hibernating, or otherwise inaccessible.

The core idea is to preserve 24/7 network uptime by establishing secure direct access to the USB, RS232, or Ethernet console management port of critical IT assets such as routers, switches, firewalls, servers, power, storage, and telecom appliances. Disruption and downtime are minimized by providing better visibility of the physical environment and the physical status of equipment. This ensures business continuity through improved uptime and efficiencies.

IOLAN SCG LWM Console Servers provide the most robust OOBM solution to keep Data Centers secure with functionality that includes full routing (RIP, OSPF, and BGP) capabilities, Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), two-factor authentication (2FA), integrated firewall, advanced failover to multiple networks, AAA security features, RADIUS, TACACS+, & LDAP authentication, and leading data encryption tools.

Full List of Winners can be found here: https://networkcomputingawards.co.uk/

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Zero Trust is a popular concept in cybersecurity. It initially referred to enterprise security teams who built processes that removed all trust from end-users. 

This is a valid approach. I, for example, like to run companies that do not mind if employees click on bad links. We understand it will be impossible to avoid, so we prepare for the inevitable — and have zero trust that there will be perfect behavior from our employees.

But when the “trust balloon” is squeezed to remove trust from end-users, then where does it go? There are two possible recipients: enterprise security organizations and the software that enterprises purchase. 

Given that security organizations are ubiquitously understaffed and overwhelmed, market forces have stepped in to squeeze the trust balloon once more. Trust has been eliminated from the end-user and delegated by understaffed enterprise security organizations to big service providers and software companies. We trust Big Tech — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Slack, and Zoom — to be the stewards of our most critical data. We have given our trust to an industry built upon speed and risk acceptance that has no liability other than market forces.

Where shifting trust models go wrong 

While it may seem a reasonable solution to trust Big Tech with your data, you need to first be clear about one thing — these companies are primarily interested in growing their market share, not security. For example, Zappos is okay with some level of fraud, Microsoft Teams is okay with occasional remote code execution, and SolarWinds was more profitable if they did not keep tabs on their software build processes. In these cases. data security and privacy were decoupled from profitability and valuation. Low quality and high risk were acceptable outcomes in pursuit of high valuations and executive wealth creation.

But the Department of Justice cannot operate in a similar risk model. It is not okay for Russia to have unfettered access to DOJ email and the Office of Personnel Management cannot be okay with the occasional breach giving China’s intelligence agency access to the personnel files of 22 million government employees. It’s obvious that our national security interests are not supported by the use of vulnerable software. And yet, the national security apparatus is reliant upon technology that prioritizes profitability and valuation above all else.

The effect of market forces on security

Market forces have dictated that a move fast and break things mentality is the most reliable way to achieve the highest possible market share and valuation. For a tech CEO, the longest path to billionaire status has been developing secure, well-engineered products. Our shifting trust models have placed the responsibility for data security at the feet of the decision-makers with the least incentive to build secure software. 

I don’t mean to suggest that the billionaire CEOs of the world’s largest software companies are naturally inclined to abuse privacy and data — rather, they are profit-motivated geniuses who are naturally inclined to compete and win within the regulatory swim lanes given to them. 

The importance of liability

The Clinton administration gave the U.S. technology industry a get out of jail free card with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As a result, Silicon Valley dominated — innovation grew and stayed in the U.S. Moving fast and breaking things was the right approach. No certifications, no permitting, no consequence for security or privacy issues. Now is the time to examine liability and put CFOs and CEOs on the hook for dodgy engineering. 

In 2013, HTC shipped 18 million vulnerable mobile devices and was fined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2019, Google received a record $57M fine by the EU for privacy violations and in the same year, Facebook was hit with a record $5B fine for their privacy infractions. Just last December, Noah Phillips, a member of the FTC, testified to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the FTC’s consumer privacy-enforcement actions against Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Zoom, and other companies had already had a “greater impact than any others in the world.” This can be viewed by the layperson as progress and directionally correct.

The sad reality is that these fines are so inconsequential that they actually promote recklessness. Google generates almost $370 million per day from ads.  A “record” $57M fine is not a speed bump — it is an invitation to hit the gas. More than ever, market forces are signaling to the technology industry that ignoring security is their most profitable strategy. Enter the conga line of security vulnerabilities and breaches in 2020.

This is just a sampling of the security incidents in the past year that were most emblematic of poorly engineered software that impacted large enterprises and national security:

• Microsoft, January 22

• Walgreens, March 2

• T-Mobile, March 5

• Unnamed U.K-Based Security Firm, March 19

• General Electric, March 24

• Zoom, April 14

• Facebook, April 21

• Small Business Administration, April 27

• GoDaddy, May 4

• U.S. Marshals, May 13

• Cognizant, June 17

• BlueLeaks, June 22

• Twitter, June 23

• Instagram, TikTok, & YouTube, August 20

• Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy (Google), October 27

• Microsoft, December 8

• FireEye/SolarWinds/DOJ/et al, December 8
  

There are talented security minds employed at most large software companies, but their functions are starved and underserved. They will remain so unless regulators become serious about enforcement. Fines should be increased to levels that have a material impact. Sticks can be motivating, but carrots work too. Balance sheets should be audited and investment in security engineering increased industry-wide.  Software vulnerabilities and data breaches should trigger mandatory oversight and increases in security budgets.

Related: 5 Key Security Considerations For Securing the Remote Workforce

What can be done?

We should be requiring more from tech companies and creating regulatory frameworks that hold them liable for unacceptable product security. The question facing our industry is NOT whether the breach and response playbook used for building and selling video doorbells should be used by the Pentagon. We know the answer is no. 

We just have to stop lowering our security standards in the name of convenience. The massive costs required to recover from the SolarWinds/Microsoft breach is not an acceptable burden for taxpayers to shoulder. We give all our trust to large technology providers — trillions of dollars of wealth are created in these software companies. It’s now time for these companies to own their fair share of liability as well.

PRINCETON, N.J. (Nov. 19, 2020) QBE, a top 20 international insurance provider with 60 branch offices in 27 countries, also operates 6 dedicated data centers in various locations around the world. The ability to ensure 24/7 uptime of the IT infrastructure is pivotal to their business. This means they must always have access to critical IT assets like routers, switches, firewalls, servers, power, storage, and telecom appliances that operate the backbone communication framework.

“As a company, we pride ourselves on strength, resilience, and dependability,” says Andreas Themistocleous, Global Technical Lead Networks at QBE. “This must also be reflected in our network architecture. However, not every branch office has dedicated IT staff on-site to provide support should our network go down. In the event of an outage, we need a way to access our critical infrastructure equipment.”

For this purpose, QBE chose to standardize on Perle IOLAN Console Servers to provide Out-of-Band access to Cisco Switches, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA), Palo Alto Firewalls, and Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). They use a combination of 4 and 8 port compact Console Servers in branch office locations, and 16 or 48 port 1U Console Servers ‘top of rack’ in their Data Centers. Because all Perle IOLAN Console Servers share the same software features and functionality, they are an ideal “one-stop-shop” solution that can fit into any environment.

Out-of-Band Management (OOBM) is a solution that provides a secure dedicated alternate access method into an IT network infrastructure to administer connected devices and IT assets without using the corporate LAN. During system or network outages, a Console Server is a single hardware solution that provides secure OOBM to monitor IT assets and devices from multiple vendors. The Console Server gives administrators access to multiple admin console ports from anywhere, anytime, and any platform, as if they were directly connected. They can be used to reconfigure, reboot, and reimage remotely across the internet or WANs. Disruption and downtime are minimized by providing better visibility of the physical environment and the physical status of equipment. This ensures business continuity through improved uptime and efficiencies.

About QBE: – https://www.qbe.com

Founded in 1886, QBE Insurance Group is one of the world’s top 20 general insurance and reinsurance companies, with operations in all the key insurance markets. QBE is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and is headquartered in Sydney. We employ more than 11,700 people in 27 countries.

Why Is Directory Listing Dangerous?

Directory listing is a web server function that displays the directory contents when there is no index file in a specific website directory. It is dangerous to leave this function turned on for the web server because it leads to information disclosure.

For example, when a user requests www.acunetix.com without specifying a file (such as index.html, index.php, or default.asp), the web server processes this request, returns the index file for that directory, and the browser displays the website. However, if the index file did not exist and if directory listing was turned on, the web server would return the contents of the directory instead.

Many webmasters follow security through obscurity. They assume that if there are no links to files in a directory, nobody can access them. This is not true. Many web vulnerability scanners such as Acunetix easily discover such directories and all files if directory listing is turned on. This means that black hat hackers can also find such files easily. This is why directory listing should never be turned on, especially in the case of dynamic websites and web applications, including WordPress sites.

Directory Browsing Without Directory Listing

Even if directory listing is disabled on a web server, attackers might discover and exploit web server vulnerabilities that let them perform directory browsing. For example, there was an old Apache Tomcat vulnerability, where improper handling of null bytes (%00) and backslash () made it prone to directory listing attacks.

Attackers might also discover directory indexes using cached or historical data contained in online databases. For example, Google’s cache database might contain historical data for a target, which previously had directory listing enabled. Such data allows the attacker to gain the information needed without having to exploit vulnerabilities.

Directory Listing Example

A user makes a website request to www.vulnweb.com/admin/. The response from the server includes the directory content of the directory admin, as seen in the below screenshot.

From the above directory listing, you can see that in the admin directory there is a sub-directory called backup, which might include enough information for an attacker to craft an attack.

The attacker can display the whole list of files in the backup directory. This directory includes sensitive files such as password files, database files, FTP logs, and PHP scripts. It is obvious that this information was not intended for public view.

Misconfiguration of the web server has led to file list disclosure and the data is publicly available. Moreover, files like these, such as FTP logs, might contain other sensitive information such as usernames, IP addresses, and the complete directory structure of the web hosting operating system.

How to Disable Directory Listing

To disable directory listing, you must change your web server configuration. Here is how you can do it for the most popular web servers:

Apache Web Server

You can disable directory listing by setting the Options directive in the Apache httpd.conf file by adding the following line:

<Directory /your/website/directory>Options -Indexes</Directory>

You can also add this directive in your .htaccess files but make sure to turn off directory listing for your entire site, not just for selected directories.

nginx

Directory indexing is disabled by default in nginx so you do not need to configure anything.

However, if it was turned on before, you can turn it off by opening the nginx.conf configuration file and changing autoindex on to autoindex off.

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With this additional win, Allot solutions will be deployed by several top Russian satellite service providers, representing approximately 70% of the Russian VSAT market

June 27, 2017 – Hod Hasharon, Israel – Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: ALLT), a leading provider of security and monetization solutions that enable service providers and enterprises to protect and personalize the digital experience, announced today it was selected by one of Russia’s top satellite service providers to optimize network traffic, protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, increase revenues, and support regulatory compliance efforts. With this additional deployment of the Allot Service Gateway multi-service platform, which includes Allot ServiceProtector for DDoS Mitigation, Quota Management and Allot ContentProtector, Allot’s customers in Russia represent approximately 70% of the Russian VSAT market in terms of stations.

With Allot Service Gateway, the Satellite communications providers can expect to improve QoE, optimize network infrastructure, increase their revenues and comply with government regulation through:

• Traffic Management to optimize TCP connections on each satellite hub, limiting heavy-bandwidth services like P2P and file transfer.
• Bot Containment to enable endpoint monitoring for anomalous behavior and the isolation of infected botnets that congested the network through outbound attacks and jeopardized satellite equipment.
• Quota Management to facilitate the delivery of an improved subscriber QoE for certain services, even when subscribers are out-of-quota.
• Content Protection to allow compliance with government regulations for dynamic filtering of hundreds of thousands of suspected or malicious URLs.
• DDoS Protection to detect and mitigate zero day attacks whilst keeping critical network elements and the Satellite network services up and running.

“Allot has significant proven experience in enabling communications service providers to extract more value from their networks and in helping them serve their customers better”; said Ran Fridman, EVP Global Sales at Allot Communications. “With Allot’s multiservice platform, CSPs get a plethora of capabilities vital to achieving the high level of service quality their customers demand and can benefit from improvement in QoE, as well as protection against widespread DDoS attacks”.

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About Allot Communications

Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: ALLT) is a leading provider of security and monetization solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to protect and personalize the digital experience. Allot’s flexible and highly scalable service delivery framework leverages the intelligence in data networks enabling enterprises and service providers to get closer to their customers; to safeguard network assets and users; and to accelerate time-to-revenue for value-added services. We employ innovative technology, proven know-how and a collaborative approach to provide the right solution for every network environment. Allot solutions are currently deployed at 5 of the top 10 global mobile operators and in thousands of CSP and enterprise networks worldwide. For more information, please visit www.allot.com

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ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Now Provides Comprehensive Network Security Reporting to WatchGuard Technologies Customers

Dubai, UAE – May 22, 2017 – ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it has joined WatchGuard Technologies as a Gold Technology Alliance Partner. WatchGuard Technologies‘ firewall appliancesand ManageEngine’s firewall reporting tool, Firewall Analyzer, now work together toallowsmall to midsize companies (SMBs) and distributed enterprisesto effectively report, manage, and mitigate their exposure to security risks.

Companies across the globe use Firewall Analyzer to get detailed insights into the bandwidth and security related aspects of their network. Firewall Analyzer is agentless and web-based software built for traffic analysis, bandwidth monitoring, and firewall reporting. A core member of ITOM solutions, Firewall Analyzer is positioned for enterprise scalability and also performs change management and compliance auditing.

“WatchGuard Technologies is excited to count ManageEngine as a Gold Technology Alliance Partner” said Ben Oster, Technology Alliance product manager at WatchGuard Technologies Inc. “This integrationoffers administrators an incredible amount of visibility into their systems. Application control goes deeper with detailed usage reports, while change management, security reporting, event trends, and a detailed compliance report for firewall configuration creates an immediate ROI for customers to present back to their stakeholders.”

“Together, Firewall Analyzer and WatchGuard firewalls allow administrators to better mitigate threats through comprehensive network security reporting and visibility,” said Dev Anand, director of product management at ManageEngine. “In today’s rapidly changing security landscape, this level monitoring, analysis and reporting is essential.”

About ManageEngine ITOM:

ManageEngine ITOM has 42,000 paid customers and 500,000 free users across its six point products including Firewall Analyzer and the integrated suite OpManager Plus. The suite offers 25 solutions starting from firewall security to end-user monitoring and everything in between in a neatly integrated package. Download the solutions book here.

About the WatchGuardONE Technology Partner Program:

The WatchGuard ONE Technology Partner Program is a powerful opportunity for companies to integrate their products with WatchGuard Technologies’ best-in-class network security solutions. Through tight product integrations, Channel Partners and customers alike benefit from stronger security, easier deployments, and better interoperability in their IT environments. You can find more information about WatchGuard Technologies’ partner programs here: https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-partners.

About ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer:

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is a web-based tool for change management, configuration analysis, security audit of firewall devices, bandwidth monitoring, and security reporting. Firewall Analyzer analyzes firewall device configurations, manages configuration changes, and audits the security of devices. It collects, analyzes, and archives logs from network perimeter security devices, and also generates reports. Notable features include firewall device management, bandwidth monitoring, and security reports. Firewall Analyzer supports firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and virtual private networks (VPNs). Firewall Analyzer Premium edition starts at $1,488 for one device and the Distributed edition starts at $17,495 for 20 devices. Firewall Analyzer can be downloaded at https://www.manageengine.com/products/firewall/download.html.

About ManageEngine

ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower IT teams to meet organizational needs for real-time services and support. Worldwide, established and emerging enterprises – including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 – rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation with offices worldwide, including the United States, India, Singapore, Japan and China. For more information, please visit buzz.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter @ManageEngine.

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Ericom announces early deployment program of Ericom Shield™, designed to isolate and protect enterprises from browser-borne threats

Closter, N.J., (June 6, 2017) – Ericom Software, a global leader for securely connecting the unified workspace, today announced the early deployment program of Ericom Shield, the second generation of its Secure Browsing solution. Ericom will be presenting the technology at Infosecurity Europe 2017 Booth K84, taking place at Olympia London on June 6-8, and will be delivering the enterprise-grade web security product later this year.

Designed to address the massive volume of ransomware and other malware plaguing today’s enterprises and users via browsers, Ericom Shield isolates all web browsing from vulnerable endpoints, and is now the safest way for users to freely browse the Internet. Ericom Shield browser isolation is an always-on safety layer between the Web and the corporate network. The solution enables rapid deployment at any scale with zero endpoint software or configuration required.

Ericom’s Secure Browsing technology aims to dramatically reduce the web threat exposure to enterprises and end users, and is built on Ericom’s expertise in desktop virtualization and HTML5 browsing technologies. Unlike most conventional web security measures such as antivirus software, URL filtering, and secure web gateways, Ericom Shield does not rely on categorizing content as benign or malicious. Instead, Ericom Shield operates in line with the organization’s existing security policy, with all non-categorized websites treated as potential threats. By default, all sites are accessed via Ericom Shield for Secure Browsing. Traffic to and from these sites is routed via the Ericom Shield remote “safe zone”, where all web content executes in isolation within secure containers, eliminating the risk of malicious code infecting any endpoint device. Ericom Shield then streams a visual representation of this content in real time to end users, providing a malware-free, seamless, native browsing experience.

At Infosecurity Europe, Ericom will be demonstrating Ericom Shield technology to current Ericom Secure Browsing customers, security-conscious partners and others looking to quickly upgrade their defensive measures. By joining the Early Deployment Program, organizations can augment their defense-in-depth enterprise security architecture by incorporating a complete browser isolation layer. 

“We’re very excited to unveil Ericom Shield for Secure Browsing,” said Joshua Behar, Ericom President and CEO. “From healthcare and financial institutions to governments, service and infrastructure providers, and virtually all other types of organizations—everyone needs unrestricted, secure browsing capabilities for their ongoing operations. Ericom Shield is a real game changer, as it helps organizations dramatically reduce the risk of infection by ransomware, zero-day attacks, drive-by downloads, infected emails and files, and other malicious web content. It isolates, contains, and discharges potentially risky web content outside of the organizational network—away from vulnerable user endpoints,” concluded Behar.

Ericom Shield has garnered attention as a web security solution designed for scalability and seamless user productivity, and is compatible with any HTML5 web browser on any device.

For more information on Ericom Shield, visit: http://www.ericomshield.com

About Ericom
Ericom Software is a global leader in securely connecting the unified workspace. Ericom empowers today’s connected workforce and the IT organizations that support them by securing and optimizing desktop, application, and web content delivery to any device, anywhere. Founded in 1993, Ericom provides enterprise-grade secure remote access, desktop virtualization (VDI), and web security solutions to a global customer base of more than 30,000 midsize to Fortune 500 organizations. With a focus on application delivery, cloud enablement, and secure browsing, Ericom advances secure connectivity—providing end users with a superior work experience and optimizing enterprise productivity. With over 8 million end users, Ericom has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and EMEA and an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, APAC, and Africa.

For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit our website. You can also follow Ericom Software on our blog, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and our YouTube channel. 

Features

Adding console servers to your data center configuration empowers technology teams to manage systems remotely. The technology itself is fairly straightforward. The console server attaches to a network setup that can be accessed off-site – usually using a private connection through a VPN or similar solution, but potentially through a corporate WAN or metropolitan area network depending on the situation – and also attached to systems within the data center, allowing for remote management. While the configuration seems simple enough, there are a few issues that should be kept in mind before diving in. These include:

• Security: Ensure the network connection is completely secure. It is also worth noting that some console servers are built with dedicated security tools to provide a layer of protection, but that feature is not universal in the sector.
• Performance: Moving data across large geographic distances can create latency. You must ensure your network setup is able to ensure quality performance or you risk having IT employees get bogged down in slow interactions every time they try to access the data center remotely.
• Authentication: This ties back to security, but deserves mention on its own. Ensuring users are leveraging robust passwords and other authentication methods is key when you empower them to access the data center remotely. Any unauthorized user could do significant damage, and you must ensure that entry is only allowed to those with clearance.

With this issues dealt with, a console server setup can fuel efficient operations within IT teams. Three of the most noteworthy ways that the remote management capabilities created by console servers create value include:

1. Rapid responses
Many IT teams feature employees who work in a fairly distributed fashion, moving from data center to data center as problems arise. It is fairly common to have an IT employee at a desk in one office get called to travel half an hour to another branch to troubleshoot a problem in the data center, assist with a new app rollout or complete a similar process. Scheduling for these sorts of travel arrangements is fairly workable on a day-to-day to basis, but becomes incredibly problematic when dealing with emergency situations.

When a downtime event strikes, an unexpected move, add or change needs to be performed or a similar issue arises, you need to get your IT workers to the data center as quickly as possible. So many things can go wrong at this point – bad traffic, a flat tire, a person who must approve a change being on vacation or traveling for work, etc. – that responding to the emergency can be time-consuming and frustrating for everybody involved. Console servers allow IT teams to remotely adjust many aspects of the configuration, letting them either fully resolve the emergency or take key actions necessary so other technical professionals on-site can deal with everything else.

2. Bottleneck elimination
For plenty of IT teams, there are professionals who have become the go-to person when a specific kind of issue comes up. In some cases, this happens because somebody happens to have significant expertise in an area and, over time, becomes the knowledge holder for those aspects of the configuration. In other instances, the structure of the team creates specific roles – such as managers who must authorize actions taken on certain machines – that make the IT organization entirely dependent on one or two people to complete key processes.

In either of these situations, companies have a personnel bottleneck that becomes incredibly frustrating if a key worker is ever away from the office at a point when something absolutely must get done. Console servers eliminate many of the challenges associated with this problem by allowing your users to quickly access the systems they need and either enact a key change or evaluate the situation and advise others on how to move forward.

Remote management can pay dividends in many data center environments.

3. Flexibility
The more agile operating environment created by console servers is already clear in the earlier two points, but the overarching flexibility that results is particularly apparent in the way such a system changes work patterns once in place. In a typical IT setup, organizations may have different members of the team distributed to various branch locations and data centers, and those users would effectively be tied to remaining in close proximity to the systems they manage to be able to respond to any kind of problem. Console servers eliminate this sense of being attached to a specific location.

If having an IT worker present at a meeting at a remote location would be helpful, you can assign somebody there without having to worry about what will happen if the professional is needed to handle an issue at the data center. If somebody needs to work from home on a given day, that’s possible. The flexibility offered by console servers can fuel cultural and operational changes that create value across your entire organization.

All told, remote management of data center assets can free IT teams of many longstanding efficiency barriers and fuel value creation in diverse ways.

Perle’s wide range of 1 to 48 port Perle Console Servers provides data center managers and network administrators with secure remote management of any device with a serial console port. Plus, they are the only truly fault-tolerant Console Servers on the market with the advanced security functionality needed to easily perform secure remote data center management and out-of-band management of IT assets from anywhere in the world.

Disk-Based Backup Storage Appliance Receives “Value for the Money” Award from Storage Magazine

London – June 28, 2016 – ExaGrid, a leading provider of disk-based backup storage with data deduplication, announced today that its EX40000E appliance has been named Storage Magazine’s ‘Value for the Money’ product of the year at their annual awards ceremony. Winners were determined by a public vote, once again validating the excellence of the technology and service delivered by ExaGrid to its customers and partners.

“Being honored with the ‘Value for the Money’ award is fantastic recognition of the industry-leading price/performance of the EX40000E,” said Andy Walsky, ExaGrid’s Vice President of EMEA Sales. “Organizations continue to tighten their IT budgets and mandate that staff do more with less. From our base of over 10,000 customer installations and hundreds of partners, we’re consistently hearing that customers choose ExaGrid appliances over other systems for faster backup and restore performance, VM boots in seconds to minutes, cost-effective scalability, and all-around superior value in terms of price/performance.”

The EX40000E appliance is ExaGrid’s most powerful appliance in its product line arsenal. It is 66% more dense than its predecessor, providing capacity for a 40TB full backup in a 3U appliance. Leveraging the strength of ExaGrid’s scale-out GRID technology, up to 25 EX40000E appliances can be combined in a single scale-out GRID system, allowing for a 1PB full backup. The EX40000E has a maximum ingest rate of 8TB/hr. per appliance, so with 25 EX40000Es in a scale-out GRID, the maximum ingest rate is 200TB/hr., which is 3.5 times the ingest performance of the EMC Data Domain 9500 with DD Boost.

ExaGrid’s unique landing zone stores the most recent backups in their full undeduplicated form for restore, recovery, and VM boot performance that is up to ten times faster than inline deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain’s, which only store deduplicated data. ExaGrid’s landing zone can allow a VM boot in seconds to single-digit minutes versus hours for appliances that store only deduplicated data.

All other solutions deduplicate data inline, which does allow for storage savings and replicated bandwidth savings; however, these systems break backup windows up front and especially over time as data grows. In addition, they are painfully slow for restores, offsite tape copies, and VM boots because the data has to be rehydrated for every restore request.

“Many of the solutions on the market just can’t keep up with a short backup window requirement in the face of rapid data growth,” said Walsky. “Furthermore, with more and more organizations virtualizing, they need just-in-time recovery by being able to boot VMs in seconds to minutes. Only ExaGrid can meet all of these requirements.”

The EX40000E appliance, which houses 96TB of raw and 78TB of usable data, can take in up to a 40TB full backup and store it as undeduplicated data in a front-end landing zone for fast restores and recoveries as well as maintaining a long-term historical version in a deduplicated data repository.

The ExaGrid scale-out approach brings compute with capacity – adding processor, memory and network ports as well as disk – allowing the backup window to stay fixed in length even as data grows. This approach is unique to ExaGrid and makes it the only disk-based backup system that maintains a fixed-length backup window.

About ExaGrid
Organizations come to ExaGrid because it is the only company that has implemented deduplication in a way that fixes all the challenges of backup storage. ExaGrid’s unique landing zone and scale-out architecture provides the fastest backup — resulting in the shortest fixed backup window, the fastest local restores, fastest offsite tape copies and instant VM recoveries while permanently fixing the backup window length, all with reduced cost up front and over time. Learn how to take the stress out of backup at www.exagrid.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. Read how ExaGrid customers fixed their backup forever.

Collaboration Responds to Channel Demand to Combine Best-of-Breed Products for Comprehensive Data Storage Solution

Westborough, Mass., May 10, 2016 – ExaGrid, a leading provider of disk-based backup storage with data deduplication, today announced that it has partnered with Nimble Storage, the leader in predictive flash storage, to develop and deliver a variety of go-to-market programs.

This collaboration will provide an end-to-end storage solution that comprehensively addresses an organization’s storage needs. ExaGrid’s products are target-side backup storage appliances for longer-term backup retention needs, typically four weeks or more. Nimble provides primary, archive, and backup storage for shorter-term retention periods. Organizations that work with both ExaGrid and Nimble benefit from the price/performance of these next-generation products over the established brand solutions that can only offer earlier generations of storage products.

“ExaGrid continues to receive calls from resellers who want to sell the best of breed solutions – what they refer to as the ‘triumvirate’ of next-generation products,” said Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid. “This includes Nimble for primary storage, Veeam for backup software, and ExaGrid for backup storage. We are getting a record number of reseller requests for combined events that include all three companies.”

“Nimble Storage customers can create highly efficient snapshots to reduce complexities associated with traditional backup,” said Dan Leary, vice president, corporate development, solutions and alliances at Nimble Storage. “The combined solutions are designed to provide customers with a complete data protection offering, combining the speed and efficiency of Nimble snapshots with ExaGrid for longer-term backup and archive.”

ExaGrid and Nimble are growing quickly and are regularly validated and recognized by industry analysts and pundits. Gartner positioned ExaGrid was positioned as the sole Visionary in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Deduplication Backup Target Appliances¹and was also recently honored by Storage magazine/Searchstorage.com as “Product of the Year, Backup Storage.” ExaGrid was named “Most Valuable Product” by Computer Technology Review and also received Network Computing’s “Return on Investment” award.

Nimble Storage was named a Leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays² and was previously positioned by Gartner as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant in the same category for two consecutive years. The report analyzes providers of mid-range, high-end, and network-attached storage systems and hybrid arrays. More than 7,500 customers have deployed the Nimble Predictive Flash Platform across more than 50 countries. The Predictive Flash Platform combines flash performance with predictive analytics to predict and prevent barriers to data velocity caused by complex IT infrastructure. Nimble customers experience absolute performance, non-stop availability, and cloud-like agility that accelerate critical business processes.

ExaGrid provides second-generation backup storage with adaptive data deduplication, a unique landing zone, and a differentiated scale-out storage architecture. In contrast, first-generation appliances perform deduplication inline and have a scale-up architecture that efficiently stores deduplicated data but slows down backups, restores, and VM boots. ExaGrid’s approach provides faster backups by performing deduplication after landing backups to disk. ExaGrid maintains the most recent non-deduplicated backups in a landing zone for fast restores and VM boots, and stores longer-term deduplicated retention data in its repository storage. Due to ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture, which adds compute with capacity, the backup window stays fixed in length even as data grows.

About ExaGrid
Organizations come to us because we are the only company that implemented deduplication in a way that fixed all the challenges of backup storage. ExaGrid’s unique landing zone and scale-out architecture provides the fastest backup — resulting in the shortest fixed backup window, the fastest local restores, fastest offsite tape copies and instant VM recoveries while permanently fixing the backup window length, all with reduced cost up front and over time. Learn how to take the stress out of backup at www.exagrid.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. Read how ExaGrid customers fixed their backup forever.

Are you considering to deploy Microsoft Office 365 cloud productivity suite to provide your users access to familiar Office applications and files from any device anywhere? Some of the advantages of adopting Office 365 include IT cost reduction, scalability, easier administration, automatic updates and patch management.

Once you have decided to get Office 365, it is important to choose carefully from one of the three identity models available with Office 365 – – Cloud Identities, Synced Identities, and Federated Identities. This decision will be based on where you want to manage your user accounts for Office 365 and where you want to control the password policy. You can choose from three types of identities when using Office 365

This diagram explains at a high level the three identity models for Office 365 deployment. (Image Source – http://blogs.technet.com/)

In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of deploying Federated Identity with Office 365.

Federated identity enables users to use their existing Active Directory corporate credentials to get seamless access to the Office 365 cloud productivity suite. The corporate Active Directory stores and controls the password policy. Users are authenticated via on-premises Active Directory services by establishing a Federation Trust between the on-premises Active Directory and Office 365.

Federated Identity for Office 365 requires setting up Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), AD FS Proxies, and Directory Synchronization tool.

Benefits of Federated Identity

Single Sign-On

In recent times, deploying SSO has become imperative. With the rise of applications and devices, employees have to create numerous login credentials. It is painful and counterproductive for employees to sign in separately into different applications in the absence of SSO.

IT admins have to spend a lot of time helping employees to resolve the login issues. From an IT administrator’s perspective managing multiple user identities across different applications and controlling who is granted access to which application is burdensome.

With the Federated Identity, single sign-on can be implemented using existing Active Directory credentials. Federated Identity sign-in model facilitates true single sign-on (SSO) allowing users to have the same password for on-premises and cloud applications including Office 365, third-party cloud, and SaaS applications. Once users sign in to their domain-joined computers, connected to the Active Directory domain, they do not need to re-enter their password while connecting to Office 365.

Reduced Security Risks

With Federated Identity, you can keep the authentication process within your on-premises Active Directory, enabling increased security. In this model, you don’t have to synchronize password hashes in the cloud Azure Active Directory. Password policy is stored on-premises, behind your firewall.

In the absence of SSO, employees are often expected to create their login for these cloud applications. Multiple login credentials expose the organization to various risks, including the potential use of easy-to-crack passwords by users. Managing a single set of credentials provide convenience to employees and IT admins and helps in creating a strong, single password.

Increased Organizational Productivity

Employees can experience a decrease in productivity if they have to deal constantly with multiple application logins, re-entering passwords and helpdesk calls for password resets. This is also a potential increase in administrative overhead which can largely offset the benefits of switching to cloud-based applications. Federated SSO can simplify the log in process improving organizational productivity.

Utilize Existing Active Directory Infrastructure

If you already have an Active Directory infrastructure in place, it is a no-brainer to deploy Federated Identity. You have already made the one-time investment in setting up the infrastructure. You do not need to incur a recurring cost every month associated with the Cloud Identity model.

Unified Management Experience

The Federated Identity also helps in managing Office 365 and other third-party cloud application seamlessly by providing a unified experience. Client Access Policy is a part of Federated Identity using Active Directory Federation Services that can limit access to cloud services based on user location, client type, or Exchange endpoint of the client. Federated Identity also provides sign-in audit, and immediate user disable features.

Keen on federated single sign-on (SSO) for Office 365, but not so keen on the administrative overhead of configuring AD FS?

Installation and configuration of AD FS and Directory Synchronization tool is a complex and time-consuming process. It involves a number of steps to get it up and running.AD FS infrastructure should be set up for high availability to prevent unexpected outages that could lead to service failure. Troubleshooting AD FS is also very complex.

To simplify this complex process of deploying AD FS and Directory Synchronization to establish SSO, Celestix offers the Celestix Federated Solution.

Celestix Federated

The Celestix Federated solution simplifies AD FS deployments with reporting and audit capabilities. It is designed to deploy on either existing AD FS servers running Windows Server 2012 R2, or onto new AD FS farm deployments.

If you are considering or evaluating federation services, Celestix Federated Series solution is simple to install and configure.  For Office 365 deployments, we provide all the tools and steps in an easy to use wizard that will configure all the necessary components.

Channel Success is proud to announce our partnership with Certes Networks – a world leader in the provision of network security products to the Enterprise, Government and Financial Services markets.

Certes is leading the Software-Defined Security revolution, enabling you to dynamically control your data traffic security without dependence on firewalls or the network infrastructure. Thousands of Certes’ patented solutions are deployed to protect enterprise data traffic in 84 countries around the world.

Certes has been cited in Gartner trend reports on Mobile Security, Cloud Security, Virtualization and Enterprise Mobile Software.**

Certes’ users enjoy the power of CryptoFlows … automatic, zero-touch group VPNs that are user aware and application aware, enabling you to extend any application to any user over any network.

A new generation of devices and applications has changed how we work, compete, and make our businesses successful.

But horror stories of high-profile data security breaches continue to pile up: credit card numbers stolen, emails hacked, VoIP calls intercepted, user identities stolen, webcam feeds hacked, proprietary secrets compromised, private data pushed into Cloud storage with no user controls … the list goes on.

Security evolution has lagged behind the new generation of IT … until now.

Certes Networks offers the new generation of security, for companies who want to gain all the efficiency and competitive advantage of modern IT, without putting themselves or their customers at risk.

Introducing Celestix Cloud Edge Security 2.0 for Increased Security in DirectAccess Client Management

Celestix releases a new version of its Unified Remote Access appliance that manages the Microsoft Windows® Server 2012 R2 Remote Access platform from a brand new HTML 5 interface for cross compatibility from virtually any platform.

Fremont, California – March 3rd, 2015 – Celestix Networks, the leading provider of secure remote access connectivity solutions, today announced the global availability of Celestix Cloud Edge Security Appliance 2.0 (CESA 2.0). It delivers the world’s most deployed platform for DirectAccess and remote access roles within Microsoft Windows® Server 2012 R2. This new release enables organizations to manage the Windows® Server 2012 R2 remote access platform from a single HTML 5 web interface called Comet 2.0.

CESA 2.0 is a comprehensive remote access solution that addresses multiple network connectivity requirements on a single device. It is not only designed to provide secure remote access for both managed and non-managed clients, but it also enables hybrid cloud connectivity for hosted public cloud services.

Both, on and off-premises management is provided through the new web UI, which will work ubiquitously across a range of computers, tablets, smart phones and web browsers.

CESA 2.0 comes with a broad array of new features and enhancements including new wizards for rapid deployment of the key features, thus eliminating tedious shell commands.  Among other features is a new DirectAccess client management option. It allows administrators to enable/disable unwanted DirectAccess remote clients or devices in real-time, for increased security. It is the latest in a long line of value-added features from Celestix that are built upon Microsoft technology and delivered on the Celestix advanced hardware platform.

Axiad IDS, Inc., an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution provider and a Celestix Value Added partner, enthusiastically welcomes the release of the Celestix CESA 2.0 Series appliances to support remote access initiatives for their customers.

“Businesses are often susceptible to significant data breaches, leading to compromised data records, and a larger damage to their reputation” said Jerome Becquart, VP of Operations, Axiad IDS, Inc.  “With Celestix CESA 2.0 range, customers can not only manage their users more effectively and securely, but also ensure that the users have secure remote access to their corporate network. The new Celestix appliances will enable us to expand our portfolio and address market needs beyond traditional VPNs” he added.

“With its Windows OS and DirectAccess support, we are providing the most comprehensive remote access platform in the market today, and a natural solution for migration for Microsoft UAG users. The release of CESA 2.0 represents a transformational step in simplifying configuration, enhancing management and improving security for Remote Access roles”, said Gabriele Sartori, CTO, Celestix Networks.

Pricing & Availability

Cloud Edge Security Appliance 2.0 will be available on March 9, 2015 at no additional cost to existing customers, on the current hardware platform with an active support maintenance contract. Celestix Cloud Edge Security Appliance U.S. list price starts at $5,995 USD. International pricing and availability vary by region. Contact us for a Free Trial or more information.

U.S. Toll Free: 1 (877) 884-1892 | Email: info@celestix.com | Website: www.celestix.com

About Celestix

Celestix Networks is the market-leading provider of network security solutions that enable the simple deployment of secure remote access connectivity across the cloud and distributed offices. Founded in 1999, Celestix has delivered numerous security appliances worldwide, and provides support to thousands of customers annually. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California, and maintains regional offices in London, Singapore and Tokyo.

Enterprise wake-up call: if you’re not doing enough to protect your customer information, the feds might come after your company for unfair and deceptive practices.

That’s the conclusion of an appellate court this week, who decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the power to sue corporations who don’t take adequate measures to protect customer information from hackers.

The FTC had sued Wyndham Hotels and Resorts over a series of security breaches that led to the compromise of the personal information and credit card numbers of 619,000 customers, to the tune of $10.6 million in fraudulent charges.

It could be argued that Wyndham’s security lapses had been particularly egregious. For example, the FTC contended that it wasn’t even using firewalls, perhaps the first line of defense against cyberattacks.

Firewalls, however, were only the tip of the iceberg. “The idea that you can trust any internal network and consider it to be safe with or without firewalls is completely obsolete,” according to cybersecurity expert Satyam Tyagi, CTO of Certes Networks.

In addition to the lack of firewalls, Wyndham also stored credit card information in clear text rather than encrypting it, failed to address known vulnerabilities, and wasn’t even aware of what computers it had connected to its own network – as well as several other basic lapses that every company must address to have any hope of deflecting an attack.

In fact, the FTC saw this breach as evidence of unfair or deceptive business practices – thus making it worthy of official action. “It is not only appropriate, but critical, that the FTC has the ability to take action on behalf of consumers when companies fail to take reasonable steps to secure sensitive consumer information,” FTC Chair Edith Ramirez told Reuters. However, neither the FTC nor the court specified what “reasonable steps” might be.

As a result, this ruling leaves enterprises with a quandary. On the one hand, it introduces a new compliance regime: companies must take reasonable steps to secure customer information, not simply to avoid exposure to customer lawsuits and reputational damage, but also to remain compliant with FTC regulation.

On the other hand, it’s not clear what the FTC’s standard will be for the reasonable steps necessary to ensure compliance. The central question here is whether the occurrence of a breach necessarily proves a company had not taken reasonable steps to prevent such a breach – or whether following some industry standard cybersecurity checklist would suffice, even if a breach were to occur anyway.

The court stated that “The Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits ‘unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce’” was the basis of their decision. Wyndham argued that its lax security measures didn’t constitute unfair or deceptive acts or practices, asserting that a business “does not treat its customers in an ‘unfair’ manner when the business itself is victimized by criminals.” However, the court ultimately disagreed with this reasoning.

The ruling continued: “A company does not act equitably when it publishes a privacy policy to attract customers who are concerned about data privacy, fails to make good on that promise by investing inadequate resources in cybersecurity, exposes its unsuspecting customers to substantial financial injury, and retains the profits of their business.”

Furthermore, the court also pointed out that even in the absence of a privacy policy, lax security would still be a deceptive business practice.

It seems, therefore, that the occurrence of a breach that exposes sensitive customer information may be sufficient evidence to warrant an FTC action, regardless of whether the company in question believed they were taking adequate steps to prevent such a breach.

As a result, this ruling should be a loud wake-up call for every enterprise struggling with their cybersecurity investments. Every company must weigh the cost of such security with the exposure any potential breach might cause.

Now companies must also consider the risk of an FTC action as well – even if they believe they’ve taken adequate precautions.

Intellyx advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, Certes Networks is an Intellyx client. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.

Paessler to Present New Sensors, Android Wear Support at Cisco Live

Wakefield, Mass. and Nuremberg, Germany – June 8, 2015 – Paessler AG, the innovative network monitoring solutions specialist, today announced that the company will unveil new sensor types and Android Wear support for PRTG Network Monitor at Cisco Live San Diego. Paessler will be exhibiting from June 8-11 at the San Diego Convention Center (booth #3004). Paessler’s continued enhancements of PRTG Network Monitor give organizations of all sizes the ability to unify monitoring activities, gain a holistic view of networks and eliminate network issues before they impact end users.

Paessler routinely adds new sensor types to increase the usability of PRTG Network Monitor and to ensure that all users can gain visibility into their infrastructure. The following sensors, currently in Beta, will be unveiled at Cisco Live:

• HTTP Data Advanced sensor – This sensor allows IT to access a web server and retrieve data in the XML or JSON encoded format.

• SNMP Juniper System Health sensor – This sensor enhances PRTG’s capabilities by adding unique support for Juniper devices, giving IT the power to monitor the full system health of each device.

In addition to the new sensors, Paessler will demo its support for Android Wear wearable devices. Paessler has made mobile support a priority in the past year, and will now give busy IT administrators another way to manage and keep track of their networks.

“Paessler is dedicated to constant improvement, and with these new features, we will be making life easier for IT administrators, which is always our goal,” said Christian Twardawa, COO of Paessler. “Supporting wearable devices at such an early stage may seem more for fun than practical, but maintaining our position on the forefront of network monitoring innovation is crucial. And, in times as hectic as these, it is critical to give IT as many options as possible to ensure they can successfully manage infrastructure.”

Christian Twardawa, COO, Paessler AG

More than 150,000 network administrators worldwide count on PRTG each day to monitor LANs, WANs, servers, websites, appliances, URL’s and much more, enabling intelligent support of business operations and allowing administrators to monitor bandwidth usage.

For more about PRTG Network Monitor, please visit www.paessler.com.

 

About Paessler AG

Paessler AG leads the industry in providing the most powerful, affordable and easy-to-use network monitoring and testing solutions. The company’s suite of just-right software products deliver peace of mind, confidence and convenience for businesses of all sizes – from Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) to large enterprises, including more than 70% of the Fortune 100 companies. Based in Nuremberg, Germany, Paessler’s global reach includes more than 150,000 active installations of its products. Founded in 1997, Paessler AG remains a privately held company and is recognized as both a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program and a VMware Technology Alliance Partner. For more information, visit www.paessler.com.

K-12 Education Institutions Standardize on Ericom Solutions to Deliver Superior Learning Environments from Any Device, Anywhere

Hanover School District, Bradford Central School, Jackson School District among wide range of schools and districts delivering browser-based access to Windows desktops and applications

Closter, N.J., (June 29, 2015 – Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, today announced that leading K-12 education institutions across the United States are embracing Ericom’s browser-based access solutions to support their one-to-one computing and other BYOD initiatives.

“Schools and districts are constantly trying to balance socioeconomic, technical and budgetary needs against the requirements of teachers, administrators, parents, students and IT personnel,” explained Joshua Behar, President and CEO of Ericom Software. “Our software helps to enable educational institutions to get the most out of existing IT infrastructure and budgets, while promoting flexibility, mobility and collaborative learning.”2

Through standard browsers available on computers, tablets and smartphones, users can securely access Windows desktops and applications – both inside and outside the classroom. From an IT perspective, there is no endpoint installation or maintenance required, reducing costs associated with help desk and support services.

Underlining the company’s commitment to education, Ericom was the first on-premise virtualization solution to get TestNav Certified by Pearson, allowing Ericom AccessNow™ & TestNav 7.5 with Chromebooks to enable K-12 districts from Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia to gain access to a wide variety of TestNav 7.5 online assessments through Chromebooks.

Schools and districts utilizing Ericom include Hanover School District, Bradford Central School, Jackson School District, the Arthur Terry School, Byram Township School District, Hapeville Charter School andRichland School District Two.

This week, Ericom will exhibit at ISTE 2015 (Booth #2965) in Philadelphia, a major trade show and conference targeting educators and education professionals.

About Ericom
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualization and RDP Acceleration Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts and other systems. Ericom has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and EMEA. Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 8 million users.

For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit our website. You can also follow Ericom Software on our blog, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and our YouTube channel

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Ilan Paretsky
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Ericom Software Named a “Major Player” in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Virtual Client Computing Software 2015 Vendor Assessment

Closter, N.J., (July 1, 2015) – Ericom Software Corporation today announced it has been included as a “Major Player” in the IDC Worldwide Virtual Client Computing Software 2015 Vendor Assessment (doc #256606, June 2015). This is the first year Ericom has been covered in the IDC MarketScape Vendor Analysis.

“IDC’s acknowledgement of Ericom as a Major Player in virtual client computing software attests to our commitment to the enterprise and ability to deliver secure and scalable managed access solutions,” explains Joshua Behar, Ericom Software’s CEO and President.” With Ericom Connect, our innovative flagship application and desktop virtualization product, we offer the market a unique approach to managed access, which utilizes distributed, grid-based technology to support hundreds of thousands of users from a single Connect management server.”

According to Robert Young, IDC research manager, “Ericom’s position as a Major Player reflects its ability to provide connection broker support for most, if not all, endpoints. Ericom was also one of the first to market with advanced HTML5 endpoint support.” Young added, “With Connect, Ericom has followed a design strategy of building from the ground up while prioritizing the subject of virtual client computing management and business analysis features that entities need.”

Ericom Connect features unparalleled scalability, reliability and high availability together with advanced business analytics and reporting tools. Ericom is targeting the offering to enterprise-level organizations seeking added scalability while maintaining the simplicity that SMBs / smaller –sized IT organizations require.

To download an excerpt of the “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Computing Software 2015 Vendor Assessment” report, visit: http://www.ericom.com/IDC-MarketScape-Virtual-Client-Computing-excerpt.asp

About IDC MarketScape
The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.


About Ericom
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualization and RDP Acceleration Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts and other systems. Ericom has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and EMEA. Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Far East and Africa. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 8 million users.

For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit our website. You can also follow Ericom Software on our blog, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and our YouTube channel.

Ericom US Contact
Ilan Paretsky
ilan.paretsky@ericom.com
201-767-2210


Ericom UK Contact
James Morgan
james.morgan@ericom.com
+44 845 644 3597